I have a double-sided document as two separate pdf files — front-facing pages in one document and rear-facing pages in the second.
front.pdf
rear.pdf
I have also combined them into a single document with all the pages but with all the front-facing pages before the rear-facing pages. The page ordering is of the form, {1,3,5,7,...,[n],2,4,6,8,...,[n-1 OR n+1]}
all.pdf
I wish to write a simple javascript that can be run from inside Adobe Abrobat X Pro. Ideally, it would count the pages of the document all.pdf
, handle both occasion when there are either an odd or even number of total pages and then reorder them such that they are in their original order:
page [1>3>4>2] => page [1>2>3>4]
The tiny leading code snippet above is from the answer by user171577 on SuperUser in this question: https://superuser.com/questions/181596/software-that-merges-pdf-every-other-page
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Answer
I was able to accomplish this following advice from NullUserException :
This script requires a document composed of all the odd pages followed by all the even pages. It will cope with cases where there are n
even pages and n+1
odd pages.
I entered a ‘Document JavaScript’ called InterleavePages
, with the following code:
function InterleavePages() {
var n = this.numPages;
var nOdd = Math.floor(n / 2);
var nEven = n - nOdd;
var x;
var y;
var i;
for(i = 0; i < nEven; i++) {
// movePage x, toAfterPage y
// note page numbers are 0-indexed
x = nOdd + (i); //
y = i * 2 ; //
this.movePage(x,y);
}
}
InterleavePages();